need help to finalize my sbs 2008 setup, too many hairs pulled out

[kamiz9999]

Hello Guys.

I do not have 10 posts so I could not place the screenshots with img embedded so just place http to see the screenshot, sorry about that

I am trying since beginning of january to make a make sbs 2008 and exchange 2007 working.
My ultimate goal is to have a dozen of blackberry devices working on blackberry enterprise server plans with blackberry server express on the top of sbs and exchange 2007.

So I will train to explain all the steps I have done with the most details possible.

My hardware ibm x346 server quad core xeon 74 gb in raid 1 with 6gb of ram
software : sbs 2008 exchange 2007
SSL certificate : digicert ssl UC certificate
Static IP
domain name : registered with Enom

I have through the reading of :
-how to cheat at configuring exchange 2007
-windows small business server 2008 administrator companion
-small business server 2008 installation, migration, and configuration
-mastering windows small business server 2008

I have successfully installed the sbs 2008 software, right now I am blocked with 2 problems I could not find a solution in any of the books or online.

1st Question :
what is the address I should put in the dns of my domain registrar from who I bought the domain name I have on my server ? see screenshot

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2nd question :
I can not add the UC ssl certificate I bought from digicert, I did the export import process and I can see it in my mmc console but when I launch the wizard add a trusted certificate, I only see the default self issued from sbs 2008. I don t know if
it could have a link with the the name I saved it, I saved it under mail.mydomain.com and I noticed all the name in the list start by remote.... so do you think renaming my certificate by remote.mydomain.com would solve the problem see screenshot
the 4 domain SAN used for my certificate are :
-mail.mydomain.com
-remote.mydomain.com
-autodiscover.mydomain.com
-owa.mydomain.com


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thank you in advance

[swerv]

So you want to adjust the MX record of you domain name, which is done not at the registrar but at some service/host where your domain points to. At the registrar level, you have to point your domain to a DNS server. There are also basic DNS services out there, but most people use there website host provider. Then at the hosting service or DNS service you edit the MX record, which would be your SBS boxed static IP. some registrars might provide this for you for a fee, or as a package with your domain.

With SBS or most setups, its not good practice to run your own DNS service, just because you don't have that kind of bandwidth and visibility on the Internet. DNS service on the open internet is what interconnects the web (This is different from the DNS service that your SBS box will run for dns resolution locally and for your Active Directory to funciton. There you will also set up "forwarders"... that point to a your ISP's DNS or opendns)

You wasted your time with those books. I've setup and broke several SBS installations... learning how to fix it probably made me as proficient as a real IT guy. After a few years you'll graduate SBS and just run straight windows server. The wizards at first help a lot, but they also do to much "auto correcting" ... to much auto pilot makes some of the real IT guy/gals advice difficult. ie sometimes changes you make get undone by under the hood SBS process. That was my ordeal with BES on sbs2k3.... with some registry changes it worked and continues to for the past 5 years.

Good luck!

[CanuckBB]

My piece of advice for SBS: use the wizards.

SBS bundles software that MS does not recommend runnig on a single server. The wizards will make the corrections needed for all the software to play nice.